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05 Feb 2009, 03:21

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E is right. It is required to know the average speed of the first half or of second half of distance. Stmt1 does not help obtain this. Stmt1 simply tells that the bus travelled a distance of 100 miles in two hours.

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05 Feb 2009, 07:06

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scthakur wrote:

E is right. It is required to know the average speed of the first half or of second half of distance. Stmt1 does not help obtain this. Stmt1 simply tells that the bus travelled a distance of 100 miles in two hours.

I think scthakur got it that I missed.

Statement 1 talks about the first two hours.Statement 2 talkes about the average speeds of the bus for the first half and second half of the distance.

St1 and 2 are talking entirely two different things. so Agree with E.

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It took the bus 4 hours to get from town A to town B. What was the average speed of the bus for the trip?

1. In the first 2 hours the bus covered 100 miles2. The average speed of the bus for the first half of the distance was twice its speed for the second half

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11 Feb 2009, 09:57

I choose C for this question.

As the distance from A to B is divided into two equal parts. So I call the speed and time to travel the 1st half of the road are S1, T1 respectively. The speed and time for second half are S2, T2. We have s1*t1 = s2*t2

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27 Jan 2010, 08:04

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We need to know the total distance to come up with the average speed.

S1 - In the first 2 hours the bus covered 100 miles - not suff as it just talks about the 1st 2 hrs and the distance travelled. In next 2 hrs distance can be 100,200,150 or anything.S2 - The average speed of the bus for the first half of the distance was twice its speed for the second half - not sufficient .....talks about the speed was twice but still doesnt tell what the distance of the 1st half was.

Together - S2 talks about the av. speed for the 1st half of the distance but doesnt say that 1st half is 100 miles. So we cant use statement 1 to come up with the total distance.

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27 Jan 2010, 10:20

It has to be E.

Statement 1 misses what is 100 miles.It can be half, 2/3rd or any part of the total distance. Hence, total distance is unknown.Statement 2 misses to replace the variables of time, speed and distance in correct form.

Both statement lack the purpose due to the same logic as in statement 1.

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27 Jan 2010, 23:08

This was a good practice problem. I struggled between C and E and can't really say that I chose either. C was the most bothersome though because on the surface it appears that you can obtain relevant numbers for the second part of the trip. However, since the rate and distance isn't explicit, one should call the statements as presented-insufficient.

Very tricky wording. Notice that S2 says "the average speed of the bus for the first half of the distance was twice its speed for the second half. So just because S1 gives us the first half of the trip, we don't know the total distance so we don't know that the first half of the trip time-wise is the same as the first half of the trip distance-wise. Accordingly, we can't speak to the average speed or distance during the second two hours; E.
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Although s2 is the "average" speed for the second half of the trip, it is not necessarily the average speed for any part of it. so using average speed for distance covered from time=4/3 hours till time=2 hours is not necessarily s2. otherwise, huuminh2211's equations are all right.

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28 Jan 2010, 12:16

1. 100 miles in 2 hrs does not give any more information about total distance -- Not Sufficient2. avg speed of ( 1/2 distance) = 2 avg speed of (second half distance) -- Not Sufficient.Together, we still don't know the total distance traveled in 4 hrs. so answer is E.